Aprilynne Pike is a best selling author, known for her series Wings. Pike was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but grew up here in Phoenix, Arizona. Wings is a four book series about an ordinary girl who discovers she is was faerie. The wings series is on the New York Times best-selling Children's Series list. The series fourth book Destined, is due out this year.
Frank Beddor is a actor, author, film producer and stuntman well known for his book, The Looking Glass Wars first released in 2004. Before his career in the entertainment industry, Beddor was a two-time World Champion freestyle skier in 1981 and 1982. The Looking Glass Wars went on to The New York Times bestseller. Beddor was also a producer for Hollywood films There's Something About Mary and Wicked both in 1998. Currently, he manages Automatic Games and Automatic Publishing.
Owen self-published the black-and-white fantasy series Starchild under his Taliesin Press imprint in the 1990s. He then changed his self publishing to Coppervale Press for Starchild: Crossroads, then went to Image Comics for the start of Starchild: Mythopolis, before returning to self-publishing. After the turn of the century Owen reinvented himself as a novelist — creating a fantasy series titled Mythworld that met with much success in Germany — and magazine editor. In 2003 Coppervale Press relaunched two classic newsstand magazines, the fine arts-oriented International Studio and the fiction periodical Argosy.
In 2006 Owen published Here, There Be Dragons, the first book in The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series. Filming rights were immediately bought by Warner Brothers, which contributed to the book's success. The second book, The Search for the Red Dragon, was released in early 2008, closely followed by the third novel, The Indigo King in Fall of 2008. The fourth novel in this series, entitled The Shadow Dragons, was released on October 27, 2009. The fifth novel, The Dragon's Apprentice, was released on October 19, 2010.
Janni Lee Simmer’s first novel for teens, Bones of Faerie, is a post-apocalyptic fairy tale, set after the war with Faerie has destroyed much of the world. She has written a sequel, Faerie Winter, and currently working on a third Faerie book. Also the author of Thief Eyes, a contemporary fantasy based on the Icelandic sagas for which she traveled to Iceland for research.
Sinmner has written three books for younger kids, most recently Secret of the Three Treasures, which is about a kid who's determined to live a life of adventure from the start, and who isn't about to let small things like still being in elementary school, too young to book passage to anywhere get in her way.
She has published more than 30 short stories for kids, teens, and adults, including appearances in Welcome to Bordertown, Cricket magazine, and Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar.
Tom Leveen is the author of PARTY; ZERO; and MUSTARDSEED (Spring 2013), all contemporary young adult novels published by Random House. His first horror novel, MONSTERS (Abrams/Amulet), following in the tradition of 28 Days Later "zombies," is set in a Phoenix high school campus and arrives Fall 2013. Visit Tom at www.tomleveen.com.
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